Roger Bowdler
@RogerBowdler
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Historian of tombs & buildings. Formerly Grade I lister at Historic England. Now Montagu Evans. London DAC, Armourers, Royal Hospital, PSSA (sculpture)
Hampstead, Middlesex
Joined June 2015
PhD Candidate @BasilBowdler has recently had an article published in History Today! You can read it here: https://t.co/L1DfARnFqp
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Ah, the joy of tombs! A Civil War veteran in Bath Abbey: Sir Philip Frowde +1674. #gravedigging
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Exceeding good news: well done! š šššš
It feels very surreal to be writing this, but I'm delighted (and relieved) to say that I just submitted my PhD!! Time to celebrate š„³š„
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A happy chance find in Amsterdam today: 1640s gateway taking Hendrick de Keyser designs even further. Sint Olofkapel, Zeeduik: breath of fresh air after seedy dope shops. #gravedigging
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St Pancras Gardens looking fab in the autumn rainā¦ thatās John Flaxman below the left hand slab, +1826. #gravedigging
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Why thank you Laurence: good to meet you and always happy to share graveyard loreā¦
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#gravedigging in Fulham: full of episcopal monuments- is this Londonās grandest sepulchral patch?
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No ifs, buts or maybes here. No sign of resurrection to a heavenly reward. Just the simple message that Death awaits us all. How Jolly is that Roger ?
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The art of letter writing is not quite dead. This šš»šš»šš»
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Damn fine conference with @ChurchMonuments Society at West Dean, visits to @ChiCathedral and Arundel Castle. Well done all #gravedigging
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Gorgeous floors of Swedish limestone at Hampton Court Palaceā¦ love the variety and degree of wear @HRP_palaces
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An interesting essay on London's #MagnificentSeven cemeteries. Its a "long read" but there's so much, much more that could be said ..
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Londonās Highgate Cemetery shows us just how hard it is to keep the dead buried.
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#gravedigging in Kettering: a really poignant stone to the 4 sons of George & Sarah Chapman, killed or died of wounds 1915-9, two just 17. Kettering Cemetery well worth a visit.
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Westminster Abbey is just the best Parnassus, Valhalla, royal necropolis there isā¦ still recovering from last weekās visit. #gravedigging
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Something to look forward to for sureā¦
The two faces of the headstone raised for Cirsten Biset, who died in 1747. A whole chapter in a book about Memento Mori gravestones could be written about just this one stone. Which is good because that is exactly what I am busy writing just now :o)
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Thank you; what an interesting figure!
@RogerBowdler Cockle Lucas was a well known Southampton eccentric, named his son Albert DĆ¼rer & allegedly dressed as a Roman and raced round the town in a chariot. Thereās a memorial to him in Chilworth church. He was very talented as the Flora bust demonstrates https://t.co/FJQ1VEvjGL
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